Supervisory Alienation
Lt Donohue
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How do you deal with a situation in which a unionized supervisor has alienated his unionized subordinates to the point where no one (including other supervisors) wants to work with or for him and you cannot transfer any of them? Demotion is not possible due to Civil Service protections. "In House" counseling has not been effective.
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If your steward is an "old school" union jerk, then just forget everything I said.
Not becoming organized has nothing to do with luck, or location or prayer. It's all about ISSUES. RTI is a system we employ. It stands simply for 'Remove The Issues'. It's as simple as recognizing issues that disatisfy workers and tend to lend themselves to organizing attempts and dealing with them in a positive and productive way. Recognize the issue, figure out a plan and put it in motion to remove the issue. Do not ignore an issue. Either WE remove the issues or eventually union organizers will get a toe-hold and bring you a present that will remove the issues and you will not like the result. The result will be like that reflected in the question above.
Union membership for years has been on the decline; but, organizers are active in every community, including yours, even when you do not know it. Either you have a union and you're stuck with it, or you don't have one and someone wants you to.
This is our philosophy too. But we never had an acronym for it before. RTI - that's the ticket.
Anne in Ohio
My $0.02 worth
The Balloonman
Anne in Ohio
Responding to the other posts about union avoidance, a formal program which encourages fairness and objectivity is excellent. Many organizations say they do that, but most don't. For them the old saying applies - a company which deserves a union, gets the union it deserves.
Anne, I didn't think you were flip. I took your remark as a compliment and followed up on it. Thanks.
Who did your one-day seminar on RTI? Can I have contact information?
We are in Oklahoma, but certainly need something like this. We are non-union, but have had "union-organizing" rumblings over the past few months due to some changes that were not received well by our employees.